Franchise God - Chapter 1244



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Franchise God Episode 1244

Chapter 286: A feast of minnow fry (6)

In the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, Im Tak-jeong was receiving an unexpected report.

“Prosecutor Ko is said to have behaved violently toward firefighters who responded to the fire in Bangbae-dong?”

“Yes. The content was to forcefully push in the parked cars and put out the fire. It seems that the actual owner of the building where the fire broke out is Prosecutor Ko Yoon-moo.”

“Who is the registered owner of the building?”

“This is Latte Group.”

“Then Prosecutor Ko is right. It must have been what Jin Seok-Hyeon received after saving that guy last time.”

However, Jin Seok-hyeon lost his eyesight permanently after stabbing himself in the eye due to hallucinations caused by drug addiction after receiving treatment.

Although he avoided prison by bribing Prosecutor Ko Yoon-moo with 10 billion won, he will have to live his entire life locked up in darkness worse than prison life.

I heard that the chairman of Latte Group made a big decision for his grandson and applied for Cheongdam Scope insertion, but the waiting line was so long that he had to wait endlessly.

“And it seems that Prosecutor General Jeong Chang-hwan and the Commissioner General also had a major accident at home.”

“Big accident?”

“In the building owned by Prosecutor General Jeong Chang-hwan, the concrete suddenly cracked, forcing everyone to evacuate. The president says that the sewage pipes in the bathroom of the apartment where he lives all backed up and exploded… and the whole house was covered in feces.”

“Just imagining it makes me smell dirty.”

The junior prosecutor spoke cautiously.

“Sir, is this by any chance….”

“It’s strange that these things are happening at the same time. If you’re going to say something like, ‘Isn’t it something the swimming group did?’, then just leave it at that.”

“I just wanted to confirm. Sorry.”

“Whether the swimming group took personal revenge or not, that’s not what’s important now.”

Im Tak-jeong took out his phone and continued speaking while looking through the list of saved items.

“The important thing is that the enemy is in a state of self-imposed confusion and the timing is advantageous for us.”

[Judge Han Chang-woo]

The signal lasted a long time, but the person on the other end did not answer the phone.

When the call went to the automated answering system, I hung up and called again.

He still doesn’t answer the phone, but it’s probably not because he’s busy, but because he’s distressed by the caller ID.

Finally, the other person answered the phone.

-Deputy Director Lim.

“Senior. If you answer the phone so late, it breaks the heart of this junior in the training center.”

-Why are you doing this to me?

“Then why have you lived such a shameful life? How can you have more than five sponsored women who buy and sell judgments and ask for prosecutions? If you take off your robe right now, I will no longer have to make any requests of you in public.”

Instead, they’ll blow up all the cabinet files and make it impossible for you to even practice law.

-How honest is Vice Minister Lim?

“I am clean under the sun. I have never received even a single hundred thousand won from someone else.”

The lottery jackpot won thanks to Ha Soo-young does not constitute bribery.

Because what he received were lotto numbers from before the draw began.

“I’m going to apply for an arrest warrant now. Please issue it neatly.”

– Are you sure that if you just do this, you won’t bother me anymore?

“I am not personally harassing you, sir. I am performing my official duties. If you determine that I am performing my official duties illegally, then refuse the warrant. Isn’t that also within the judge’s authority?”

-… … Go ahead and apply.

“I’m sorry to have to ask you to do such a menial task. It’s hard to find a clean judge among you.”

Im Tak-jeong, who had hung up the phone, stood up with a start, stretching his body.

“Okay, let’s get moving.”

“Yes, sir.”

Im Tak-jeong and the small group of prosecutors following him moved like lightning.

They surprised the president and Chief Prosecutor Jeong Chang-hwan, who had directly ordered the search and seizure of the swimming pool hospital, and immediately arrested him and threw him into the detention center.

The reason for the arrest was the suspicion that he illegally searched and seized a swimming hospital for personal gain and also demanded a bribe.

“Isn’t Vice President Lim crazy?”

“He must have thought this was his own world after rotting away in Jeju Island for a long time and then returning.”

“What’s wrong with that kid?”

The prosecution was thrown into great confusion by the unprecedented rebellion.

Im Tak-jeong didn’t stop there.

“The search and seizure of Cheongdam Swimming Hospital is only a very small part of the large-scale operation to tame the swimming group.”

There are many old and greedy lawyers who want to receive a large amount of money from Ha Soo-young. They include judges, prosecutors, and retired lawyers who have opened their own practice.

However, Ha Soo-young only deals with Park Ho-jin’s law firm, and even those are all legitimate transactions.

There was absolutely no case of offering huge legal fees to cover up illegal activities or of pouring money into managing legal connections.

This was a completely different move from the conglomerates’ previous practices, and so legal professionals have been building up discontent for years.

If you have so much money, why don’t you give us pocket money?

So I rushed in to make it so that I had no choice but to give them pocket money, but all of the swimming group’s accounting was perfect.

Even if they tried to trip up the biggest tax evasion, there was nothing to trip up on because agriculture was a tax-exempt business.

Since the ownership and management of subsidiaries such as Prime Construction and Seojin Foundry are separate, it would have been too much of a stretch to directly target Ha Su-young.

In this situation, Ha Su-yeong ended up obtaining the status of a national treasure in South Korea, and the legal profession became anxious.

It was also a great shock to see the president, who had a military background, bowing down to Ha Soo-young and working hard to strengthen his power base.

Ah, if we keep going like this, we’ll just end up being the fools.

Now I can’t just sit back and watch any longer.

I won’t be able to properly save for retirement later.

A sense of crisis has come.

However, the search and seizure failed miserably, and instead, the president and other leaders were locked up in the detention center and had their movements restricted due to the internal insurgency.

***

Im Tak-jeong quickly interrogated the president.

“You crazy bastard! Do you know what you’ve just done?”

There was a faint hint of impatience in the angry rebuke.

The president was completely unfocused on whatever was tackling him at the moment.

Even though he was suffering the unspeakable humiliation of being arrested for disobeying his subordinates by his standards, he was preoccupied with other thoughts.

“Mr. President, you’re having a hard time. Is it because your house is a mess because of the sewer pipe backup explosion? Or is it because of the safe you found while cleaning?”

“Wh, what are you talking about!”

The president jumped in surprise, and Im Tak-jeong’s smile became even more eerie.

“Oh, well. The cleaning company employee found a large metal safe and accidentally pressed the button, and it just opened. Why don’t you use a digital safe? Or at least turn it into a number key?”

The security awareness that there is no difference in setting the nuclear launch code to 00000000. It must have been annoying to open and close it every time, and it is a security disaster caused by the mindset that it does not matter because it is your own study.

“How are you going to explain these bearer bonds and gold bullion that are not included in the property declaration?”

“This is a separate investigation. It’s illegal.”

“It’s not a special investigation. It was discovered by a cleaning company and an additional report was filed, right?”

The president’s eyebrows were trembling.

The assets found in the safe were more than seven times the total assets the president had publicly declared.

In other words, the president is now in danger of losing close to 90% of his entire assets.

Perhaps the current situation in your head or the Cheongdam Swimming Pool Hospital do not even exist.

How can I keep that money safe? That’s probably all you’re thinking about.

“You little punk… Do you think you can keep your position within the prosecution after committing such insubordination?”

The president’s voice trembled.

Even if we bring down Im Tak-jeong, it is of no use if we do not get back all of his property.

“I don’t know how much you received from Chairman Ha Soo-young, but if you only trust that one guy…….”

“Does it seem like I’m doing this for Chairman Ha Soo-young’s personal benefit?”

“What the hell are you talking about? Are you saying there’s another reason?”

“There is a reason. I just caught my colleagues committing a crime, and as a prosecutor, I arrested them.”

“This crazy kid……”

“Okay, let’s start interrogating him. Name!”

“……what?”

“Name! Tell me your name!”

***

The confusion in the prosecution grew worse day by day.

Senior and fellow prosecutors came rushing in and protested to Im Tak-jeong, asking if he was crazy. The resistance to the search and seizure of Suyeong Hospital had already been put on the back burner, and no media outlets covered it.

During this period, the media companies that could operate without worrying about blackouts were generally small in size, and Ulleung County Citizens’ Daily, which had become a nationwide newspaper, was the one speaking out the loudest.

[Prosecutor Im Tak-jeong, this is not an act of insubordination! I just stood up to eradicate serious judicial crimes within the prosecution organization!]

The major media companies that were once part of the top 10 media outlets desperately tried to drive them into a state of insurgency, but they had difficulty operating properly because the power supply was unstable and they had to rely on their own generators.

I was having a hard time writing articles in a stuffy office with no air conditioning and barely uploading them to the portal server, but I couldn’t beat the Ulleung County Citizens’ Daily, which receives support from Freedom in terms of speed and quantity.

And there was a group of people who were busy figuring out how to take advantage of this confusion in the prosecution.

Ruling party army and pro-army lawmakers met secretly.

“The prosecution is now at a level worse than a Tang Dynasty rabble. What is happening is more outrageous than a military police chief making fun of the Chief of Staff and arresting him.”

“The lieutenant general arrested the chief of staff. That’s a perfect metaphor, Rep. Lee Yong-sik.”

Rep. Lee Yong-sik is a three-term lawmaker who served as a general and was a senior at the Korea Military Academy compared to current President Park Bu-sung.

Although he is currently classified as a pro-presidential faction, he was a potential rival who would most fiercely compete with the president for the position of prime minister when the cabinet system was launched after the five-year term.

Above all, he did not like Ha Su-yeong, who only valued the Navy and Air Force. Most of the lawmakers who were from the Army or who were pro-Army factions were hiding such tendencies.

In other words, they are ‘Shy Ha Soo-young anti-fans’.

However, Rep. Lee Yong-sik’s strategy was different from that of those idiots who just blindly conducted searches and seizures.

“Rep. Lee Yong-sik, how about using this opportunity to give strength to Chief Im Tak-jeong so that he can easily take control of the prosecution?”

Another member dissented.

“Hmm, wouldn’t it be better to give strength to the opposing side of Im Tak-jeong? Since they hate ‘Hae-soo’, wouldn’t they be able to communicate better with us?”

‘Haesu’ is a kind of code word that refers to sea water, or hasuyeong.

There was a complex exchange of opinions on how the prosecution should intervene to benefit the army and the next prime minister.

Lee Yong-sik, who had been listening quietly, spoke up.

“There’s something everyone overlooks.”

“What is it?”

“Our VIPs will naturally side with Vice Minister Lim. They wanted to give the prosecution a hand because they were not listening to them. There is no other explanation for the current Minister of Justice not cooperating with the prosecution even though he is a former prosecutor. It’s because seniors and juniors are at odds.”

“…….”

“So we have to move in a different direction from VIP. That way we can achieve our goal as much as possible.”

Even if you work with the president, you will only end up as a follower.

If he moves in a different direction, he can harm Ha Soo-young, whom he secretly hates, and get one step closer to the next presidential election.

“The most important thing right now is to prevent the seawater from flowing and to make it pool in one place. If the seawater flows into the vast ocean, we won’t be able to do anything even if we want to. Now that the prosecution is in disarray, this is a great opportunity that will never come again.”

Lee Yong-sik’s heart was pounding rapidly.

This was an unexpected, heaven-sent opportunity.

If you can take advantage of the current situation, you can become the first prime minister and seize the power to rule this country until you die.

“Then I will try to connect with the president’s side, no, the anti-government forces. If the ‘ruling party’ actively supports it, I will gladly accept it.”

The owner of the Blue House is the president, but the owner of the party now is its leader, Lee Yong-sik.

**

Prosecutor General Hong Gyu-ro, who had made contact with the Lee Yong-sik faction, raided the Joint Chiefs of Staff Headquarters and arrested key generals with military command authority, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on charges of military corruption.

It was an illegal arrest targeting them while they were out of the Yongsan headquarters.

Additionally, an overseas travel ban and arrest warrants were requested for key figures of the Beomsuyoung Group, including Ha Sooyoung, Rohan, Jeon Seongryeol, and Jeong Seohee.

The travel ban was implemented normally, but the arrest warrant was postponed due to the court’s evasive examination, which was frightened by the crazy situation.

Accordingly, the Navy Headquarters judged that Ha Su-yeong was in danger, so Marine Corps special forces entered the Cheongdam-dong mansion via airlift helicopter and built an iron wall.

An emergency alert was issued throughout the Army, and supplies locked in warehouses began to see the light of day.

The people began and ended their days completely unaware of this urgent situation.